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Pacific Glaciers Melting Away

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Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away

The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade—and possibly sooner—due to climate change, a new study has found.
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More hard evidence confirming what we all knew: Climate Change is Real, and it's effects are coming on much faster than expected.
 
Sunsettommy said:
Have you READ the paper yet?

:lol:
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This sums things up nicely

Thompson said the elders of the community were strongly in favor of kicking the research team out while the younger people, he said, wanted the mission to continue. In this case, the younger people won.

"It was the young people who were saying, 'Have you not seen what's happening?'" Thompson said.
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calamity said:
This sums things up nicely
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Then you don't know....., what is in it.

after all you stated this:

More hard evidence confirming what we all knew: Climate Change is Real, and it's effects are coming on much faster than expected.
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How would you know, if you never read the paper?

I wanted to see the background on those glaciers in the yet unseen paper, but press releases are not the place to find it.
 
Sunsettommy said:
Then you don't know....., what is in it.

I wanted to see the background on those glaciers in the yet unseen paper, but press releases are not the place to find it.
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Sure, whatever.
 
calamity said:
Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away



More hard evidence confirming what we all knew: Climate Change is Real, and it's effects are coming on much faster than expected.
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Glaciers have been receding world-wide for as long as I can remember.
It isn't anything new. The internet is full of then and now photographs
of receding ice. The ice caps are receding too. After all sea level IS
going up and the water has be be coming from somewhere. When
I was a kid we visited the Moraine museum in Rocky Mountain National
Park. The rangers had a 16 mm movie that explained how the glaciers
have receded since the last ice age. The aptly named museum sits
on the moraine from the glacier's farthest advance. Around the same
time a visit to the Athabasca Glacier in Canada and the rangers told
the same story.

Do you guys really believe that if we stop burning fossil fuels that the
glaciers will stop receding?
 
Steve Case said:
Glaciers have been receding world-wide for as long as I can remember.
It isn't anything new. The internet is full of then and now photographs
of receding ice. The ice caps are receding too. After all sea level IS
going up and the water has be be coming from somewhere. When
I was a kid we visited the Moraine museum in Rocky Mountain National
Park. The rangers had a 16 mm movie that explained how the glaciers
have receded since the last ice age. The aptly named museum sits
on the moraine from the glacier's farthest advance. Around the same
time a visit to the Athabasca Glacier in Canada and the rangers told
the same story.

Do you guys really believe that if we stop burning fossil fuels that the
glaciers will stop receding?
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Oh look, an "ice age" did it post. If glaciers had been receding at the rate they do today for the past 10,000 years, we'd all be bathing in a lake in the middle of Antarctica for Christmas holiday.
 
calamity said:
Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away



More hard evidence confirming what we all knew: Climate Change is Real, and it's effects are coming on much faster than expected.
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So?

There isn't a long history of that glacier. It might only be 50 years old. It might be a cyclical event. There are other factors that melt ice that are not ruled out.

Another Chicken Little story is all I see.

Bring us back actual proof please.
 
Lord of Planar said:
So?

There isn't a long history of that glacier. It might only be 50 years old. It might be a cyclical event. There are other factors that melt ice that are not ruled out.

Another Chicken Little story is all I see.

Bring us back actual proof please.
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"It might only be 50 years old."

Seriously? You're saying that the glacier in question may have only been there for 50 yrs? What is your proof (as if it's even a sensible question to ask of such an inane statement)?

To quote the article "...these glaciers have likely occupied these mountaintops for the last 5,000 or so years."
 
Threegoofs said:
It’s a review of the topic by the best scientists in the world.

I know it’s a surprise to you that you were excluded.
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I'm sorry that you don't know where to look in that material for your answer.

That's on you. Not me.
 
Threegoofs said:
It’s a review of the topic by the best scientists in the world.

I know it’s a surprise to you that you were excluded.
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The napkin got lost in the mail.
 
calamity said:
Sure, whatever.
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I found out that your unpublished paper is full of ****.

Those Glaciers are NO more than 5,000 years old, there were none for a long time before that, and the tree line was higher than where the existing glaciers location is now.

Pacific Glaciers Redux

Those poor glaciers were retreating way back in the early to mid 1800's in reaction to the dying LIA.

Now you understand why I asked for that Paper?

:2wave:
 
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bluesmoke said:
"It might only be 50 years old."

Seriously? You're saying that the glacier in question may have only been there for 50 yrs? What is your proof (as if it's even a sensible question to ask of such an inane statement)?

To quote the article "...these glaciers have likely occupied these mountaintops for the last 5,000 or so years."
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The article doesn't tell you that there ZERO glaciers before THAT time, treeline was much higher there too.

:2wave:
 
Not a lot of people know that

3000-Year-Old Trees Excavated Under Icelandic Glacier

December 12, 2019

By Paul Homewood

Excerpt:

Ancient tree stumps found under Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in Southeast Iceland are confirmed to be roughly 3,000 years old. RÚV reports.

A specialist believes the remarkably well-preserved stumps were part of a massive forest that disappeared after a long period of a warm climate.

One of the tree stumps was found in Breiðamerkursandur a couple of months ago, and once it was being salvaged a second, larger one was found. The smaller one was sent for examination while the larger will be examined at a later time.

Examinations revealed that the tree stump died very quickly at 89-years-old in the month of June. Nearby sediments and data suggest that the glacier itself was the culprit.

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More about Forests in Greenland, Iceland, Switzerland, Alaska, Patagonia that were found under existing glaciers in the above link.
 
Much ado about nothing.

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[h=1]Pacific Glaciers Redux[/h][FONT=&quot]Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that Charles the Moderator has posted up the report of the fears of the loss of the Puncak Jaya glacier here on WUWT. Below is a photo of the current state of the glacier, which is in Irian Jaya on the island of New Guinea, north of Australia.…
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21 hours ago December 12, 2019 in Alarmism.
 
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